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Tollington ward councillors want to learn more about Tollington through your eyes. Use the tools at the bottom of this page to tell us what you like about your area and any suggestions you have for improvements.

Using the interactive map

The interactive map shows you the locations of the various ongoing and completed projects that Tollington ward councillors have supported using Developer Contributions funding. You can use this map to leave comments on locations across Tollington or show your support for comments your fellow residents have left.

Note: the interactive map is not a crime reporting tool. If you have something to report, you can find information on how to report Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) and how to report crime on the Islington council website.

Using the survey

If you prefer, you can read the list of projects supported by councillors below and submit your comments through our survey. Like with the map, you have the choice to tells something you like about your area and/or suggest improvements.


Projects that councillors have supported

In progress

Tackling Anti-social Behaviour at Bennett Court

  • Our funding: £5,000
  • Project in development

This project will look at potentially gating the Axminster Road entrances to Bennett Court. The current work involves looking at the requirements and any likely impacts on services and access to the estate by various users (e.g. post/delivery, waste collection, disability access, car owners), as well as establish the costs for works.


Evershot Gardens Woodland Area

  • Our funding: £5,000
  • Project started March 2025

This project will convert a garden on Evershot Road into a woodland area and install new fencing. This will support biodiversity in the area.


Wray Crescent Community Building

  • Our funding: £133,353
  • Project in development

Replacing the brick pavilion at Wray Crescent open space with a new, multi-use building that will support and encourage cricket at the site, helping to make it a destination for the sport in inner London. As well as sporting infrastructure, the building will provide a community space for the public benefit and an office for Middlesex County Cricket Club who want to have a presence at the site


Wray Crescent Park improvements

  • Our funding: £210,000
  • Project in development

This project is looking at planting and other landscaping in the area next to the site of the new Wray Crescent Community Building. It will help make the space more user-friendly and attractive. More improvements may also include:

  • updating equipment
  • repairing the planter wall
  • joining up the waking route around the edge of the park.


Landseer Gardens improvements

  • Our funding: £30,000
  • Project in development

The aim is to make the park more attractive and user-friendly, improving facilities and reducing anti-social behaviour in the area. Options include:

  • upgrading the play equipment
  • adding benches and planters.

Find the latest updates for Landseer Gardens on Let’s Talk Islington.


Everleigh Street open space improvements

  • Our funding: £5,000
  • Project in development

A redesign of the open space at Everleigh Street. Costs will fund an investigation into options for the space. There will be a public consultation with local residents, gathering your suggestions and listening to your opinions.

Find the latest updates for Everleigh Street Open Space on Let’s Talk Islington.


Simmons House play area

  • Our funding: £25,000
  • Project started September 2025

This project will replace and upgrade the existing playground equipment with a new, modern, fit-for-purpose playground. It will also resurface the existing ground and replace the gate.


Tackling Anti-social Behaviour at Blenheim Court

  • Our funding: £40,000 from local CIL
  • Project in development

This project is focusing on the installation of new metal gates to stairwells across Blenheim Court Estate, including a fob access and intercom system to affected flats.

This is part of a wider scheme of improvements to the estate that includes updated recycling facilities, lumber store improvements, and landscaping, with the collaboration of multiple teams in the council.


Secure estate cycle storage

  • Our funding: £48,600 from local CIL
  • Project started Summer 2021

This is looking at secure cycle facilities on estates in Tollington that do not yet have any secure cycle storage for residents. Cycle hangars have been installed on on Saltdene, Sedgley House, Holly Park, Ilex House, Sussex Close, Cotman House, Reynolds House, and Blenheim Court estates.

More funding will go towards installing a hangar at Simmons House. The new hangars will help residents to store cycles safely, rather than taking up space inside properties or being left in communal areas of buildings breaking fire safety rules. The availability of secure cycle storage will encourage more cycle use, with personal, environmental, health and economic benefits.


Completed

Sussex Close Playground

  • Our funding: £50,000
  • Project completed July 2025

This scheme made a complete refurbishment of the playground on Sussex Close estate, with new play equipment, natural elements like boulders, resurfacing, and self-closing gates for increased safety.


Sussex Close Community Garden

  • Our funding: £10,000
  • Project completed December 2024

This project helped fund a new community garden at Sussex Close Estate. Residents took part in workshops to design and build the garden, as well as learn how to take care of their chosen plants.


Manor Gardens Centre Fire Doors

  • Our funding: £45,000
  • Project completed December 2024

This project supported the replacement of fire doors at Manor Gardens Centre, which is based in a listed building. The works helped the Centre be compliant with fire safety standards.


Improvements to parking on Hornsey Road

  • Our funding: £25,000
  • Project completed March 2023

This project created a new loading bay on Hornsey Road. The aim of the project was to address the issue of road blockages, often caused by delivery vans, on Hornsey Road. The loading bay has created more space for other vehicles when approaching the traffic lights and junction near Tesco to reduce blockages and a better flow of traffic.


Cornwallis Park

  • Our funding: £13,171
  • Project completed December 2022

This project brought in a range of soft landscape improvements at Cornwallis Park. It removed some old large shrubs which opened up the space, improving sight lines and removing potential spaces for anti-social behaviour. A range of new plants, bulbs and shrubs, including plants that grow in shady areas, were planted and new turf was laid. The project has creating a more welcoming and pleasant space for users.


Tollington Ward tree planting

  • Our funding: £10,835
  • Project completed December 2022

The project gave Tollington more street tree planting in line with the council tree strategy. During the 2021/22 planting season, trees were planted throughout the area including:

  • Grenville Road
  • Kingsdown Road
  • Hanley Road
  • Sussex Way
  • Landseer Road
  • Charteris Road
  • Almington Street


Crouch Hall Court pram and cycle storage

  • Our funding: £21,450
  • Project completed August 2022

This secure cycle storage and pram storage at Crouch Hall Court helps meet the high demand for more cycle facilities. The installation of a larger cycle storage unit, which can store 10 bicycles and a cargo bike will help residents to store cycles safely rather than taking up space inside properties or being left in communal areas of buildings, breaking fire safety rules. It also includes four pram storage units, providing space for families with young children to store their buggies. Project was completed in July 2022.


Tollington ward councillors want to learn more about Tollington through your eyes. Use the tools at the bottom of this page to tell us what you like about your area and any suggestions you have for improvements.

Using the interactive map

The interactive map shows you the locations of the various ongoing and completed projects that Tollington ward councillors have supported using Developer Contributions funding. You can use this map to leave comments on locations across Tollington or show your support for comments your fellow residents have left.

Note: the interactive map is not a crime reporting tool. If you have something to report, you can find information on how to report Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) and how to report crime on the Islington council website.

Using the survey

If you prefer, you can read the list of projects supported by councillors below and submit your comments through our survey. Like with the map, you have the choice to tells something you like about your area and/or suggest improvements.


Projects that councillors have supported

In progress

Tackling Anti-social Behaviour at Bennett Court

  • Our funding: £5,000
  • Project in development

This project will look at potentially gating the Axminster Road entrances to Bennett Court. The current work involves looking at the requirements and any likely impacts on services and access to the estate by various users (e.g. post/delivery, waste collection, disability access, car owners), as well as establish the costs for works.


Evershot Gardens Woodland Area

  • Our funding: £5,000
  • Project started March 2025

This project will convert a garden on Evershot Road into a woodland area and install new fencing. This will support biodiversity in the area.


Wray Crescent Community Building

  • Our funding: £133,353
  • Project in development

Replacing the brick pavilion at Wray Crescent open space with a new, multi-use building that will support and encourage cricket at the site, helping to make it a destination for the sport in inner London. As well as sporting infrastructure, the building will provide a community space for the public benefit and an office for Middlesex County Cricket Club who want to have a presence at the site


Wray Crescent Park improvements

  • Our funding: £210,000
  • Project in development

This project is looking at planting and other landscaping in the area next to the site of the new Wray Crescent Community Building. It will help make the space more user-friendly and attractive. More improvements may also include:

  • updating equipment
  • repairing the planter wall
  • joining up the waking route around the edge of the park.


Landseer Gardens improvements

  • Our funding: £30,000
  • Project in development

The aim is to make the park more attractive and user-friendly, improving facilities and reducing anti-social behaviour in the area. Options include:

  • upgrading the play equipment
  • adding benches and planters.

Find the latest updates for Landseer Gardens on Let’s Talk Islington.


Everleigh Street open space improvements

  • Our funding: £5,000
  • Project in development

A redesign of the open space at Everleigh Street. Costs will fund an investigation into options for the space. There will be a public consultation with local residents, gathering your suggestions and listening to your opinions.

Find the latest updates for Everleigh Street Open Space on Let’s Talk Islington.


Simmons House play area

  • Our funding: £25,000
  • Project started September 2025

This project will replace and upgrade the existing playground equipment with a new, modern, fit-for-purpose playground. It will also resurface the existing ground and replace the gate.


Tackling Anti-social Behaviour at Blenheim Court

  • Our funding: £40,000 from local CIL
  • Project in development

This project is focusing on the installation of new metal gates to stairwells across Blenheim Court Estate, including a fob access and intercom system to affected flats.

This is part of a wider scheme of improvements to the estate that includes updated recycling facilities, lumber store improvements, and landscaping, with the collaboration of multiple teams in the council.


Secure estate cycle storage

  • Our funding: £48,600 from local CIL
  • Project started Summer 2021

This is looking at secure cycle facilities on estates in Tollington that do not yet have any secure cycle storage for residents. Cycle hangars have been installed on on Saltdene, Sedgley House, Holly Park, Ilex House, Sussex Close, Cotman House, Reynolds House, and Blenheim Court estates.

More funding will go towards installing a hangar at Simmons House. The new hangars will help residents to store cycles safely, rather than taking up space inside properties or being left in communal areas of buildings breaking fire safety rules. The availability of secure cycle storage will encourage more cycle use, with personal, environmental, health and economic benefits.


Completed

Sussex Close Playground

  • Our funding: £50,000
  • Project completed July 2025

This scheme made a complete refurbishment of the playground on Sussex Close estate, with new play equipment, natural elements like boulders, resurfacing, and self-closing gates for increased safety.


Sussex Close Community Garden

  • Our funding: £10,000
  • Project completed December 2024

This project helped fund a new community garden at Sussex Close Estate. Residents took part in workshops to design and build the garden, as well as learn how to take care of their chosen plants.


Manor Gardens Centre Fire Doors

  • Our funding: £45,000
  • Project completed December 2024

This project supported the replacement of fire doors at Manor Gardens Centre, which is based in a listed building. The works helped the Centre be compliant with fire safety standards.


Improvements to parking on Hornsey Road

  • Our funding: £25,000
  • Project completed March 2023

This project created a new loading bay on Hornsey Road. The aim of the project was to address the issue of road blockages, often caused by delivery vans, on Hornsey Road. The loading bay has created more space for other vehicles when approaching the traffic lights and junction near Tesco to reduce blockages and a better flow of traffic.


Cornwallis Park

  • Our funding: £13,171
  • Project completed December 2022

This project brought in a range of soft landscape improvements at Cornwallis Park. It removed some old large shrubs which opened up the space, improving sight lines and removing potential spaces for anti-social behaviour. A range of new plants, bulbs and shrubs, including plants that grow in shady areas, were planted and new turf was laid. The project has creating a more welcoming and pleasant space for users.


Tollington Ward tree planting

  • Our funding: £10,835
  • Project completed December 2022

The project gave Tollington more street tree planting in line with the council tree strategy. During the 2021/22 planting season, trees were planted throughout the area including:

  • Grenville Road
  • Kingsdown Road
  • Hanley Road
  • Sussex Way
  • Landseer Road
  • Charteris Road
  • Almington Street


Crouch Hall Court pram and cycle storage

  • Our funding: £21,450
  • Project completed August 2022

This secure cycle storage and pram storage at Crouch Hall Court helps meet the high demand for more cycle facilities. The installation of a larger cycle storage unit, which can store 10 bicycles and a cargo bike will help residents to store cycles safely rather than taking up space inside properties or being left in communal areas of buildings, breaking fire safety rules. It also includes four pram storage units, providing space for families with young children to store their buggies. Project was completed in July 2022.


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